LAMPEDUSA (Italy): The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled yesterday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at...

DERNA: Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams,...

[caption id="attachment_18786" align="alignnone" width="1240"] Indonesia's President Joko Widodo delivers his speech during the closing ceremony of the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit...

BEIJING: China's top security agency has hinted that any meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden in San Francisco later this year...

BANGKOK: Thailand's king has commuted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's eight-year prison sentence to one year, the royal gazette said today, a day after the...

[caption id="attachment_18763" align="alignnone" width="1800"]  [/caption] GENEVA: people were killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "There needs...

MADRID: Spanish society must break a “pact of silence” and stop normalizing sexist behaviour and support women brave enough to speak out when it happens,...

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's administration has for the first time approved direct US military aid to Taiwan under an assistance programme aimed at foreign governments,...

BRASILIA: Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny...

NEW DELHI: India issued a “strong protest” to China yesterday after a Beijing map claimed land that New Delhi says is theirs, including territory close...